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Henry Lunt: biography and history of the development of Southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico

resources--including iron ore, coal, and millstone gnt. They found a good stand of sawlog timber only six miles away in Center Creek Canyon, and there were great quantities of aspens there and in Red Canyon. They found Summit Creek to be too rough to permit ascending to an elevation high enough to obtain any timber at all6 On Sunday, January 19, the camp assembled and, after a talk from Brother Anson Call, it was agreed unanimously to build a meeting house, also to settle in a compact fort and make a road up Center Creek Canyon. There was discouragement among the people so it was important to start gathering building materials and get everyone busy as soon as possible. John D. Lee wrote: Many have formed an opinion of the country and its facilities before seeing one foot of it, and the result was many were disappointed and could not reconcile themselves to take the country as they found it. Could they have found cedar trees on the sides of the mountains and valleys about thirty feet higher than what they actually are, and this 'bloody' soil turned into a black loam, and that the burden of the land was here with sage grass six feet high and so thick that a rabbit dare not enter, and small rivers running out of every canyon alive with fish, and above all, gold mixed with the soil instead of gravel, it might have met their expectations in some small degree. Others had the building up of the Kingdom in view alone and were willing to put up with the country and its disadvantages, and be satisfied and thankful that it is no worse, and this is the way we should all feel. I am aware that there is a better farming country on the cottonwood [Cedar Valley] and water enough perhaps to irrigate 6000 acies of land, and timber and poles handy--but no site to locate a fort without being surrounded by thickets on every side where we would be exposed, as well as our cattle, to savage hostilities who could lay in ambush and shoot every man that

resources--including iron ore, coal, and millstone gnt. They found a good stand of sawlog timber only six miles away in Center Creek Canyon, and there were great quantities of aspens there and in Red Canyon. They found Summit Creek to be too rough to permit ascending to an elevation high enough to obtain any timber at all6 On Sunday, January 19, the camp assembled and, after a talk from Brother Anson Call, it was agreed unanimously to build a meeting house, also to settle in a compact fort and make a road up Center Creek Canyon. There was discouragement among the people so it was important to start gathering building materials and get everyone busy as soon as possible. John D. Lee wrote: Many have formed an opinion of the country and its facilities before seeing one foot of it, and the result was many were disappointed and could not reconcile themselves to take the country as they found it. Could they have found cedar trees on the sides of the mountains and valleys about thirty feet higher than what they actually are, and this 'bloody' soil turned into a black loam, and that the burden of the land was here with sage grass six feet high and so thick that a rabbit dare not enter, and small rivers running out of every canyon alive with fish, and above all, gold mixed with the soil instead of gravel, it might have met their expectations in some small degree. Others had the building up of the Kingdom in view alone and were willing to put up with the country and its disadvantages, and be satisfied and thankful that it is no worse, and this is the way we should all feel. I am aware that there is a better farming country on the cottonwood [Cedar Valley] and water enough perhaps to irrigate 6000 acies of land, and timber and poles handy--but no site to locate a fort without being surrounded by thickets on every side where we would be exposed, as well as our cattle, to savage hostilities who could lay in ambush and shoot every man that